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CTO, Rv'er, biker, pilot, total geek. Real grey-haired CTO who still codes because I enjoy it - and because it annoys the hell out of the little day coders that the old fart can out-code 'em.
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Costs/Benefits
Benefits: Lots of lobbyist money in lots of politicians pockets.
Costs: N/A. The public pays for it, so there is no cost that matters to anyone important.
Life was so much easier
... when all media (and what they reported on) was under government control. This internet thing is letting too damn much truth get out.
For the folks in government... repeat this out loud every day until it sinks in...
we NO LONGER control the horizontal;
we NO LONGER control the vertical;
we NO LONGER control the message;
The TRUTH is out there...
and then.... Deal With It.
Another measurement please.
And this is going to have what impact on sales of "records" and "dvds" exactly?
I'm skeptical that we will see any real numbers about the net effect of the ban.
In the good old days....
these 7 would just have had "sudden heart attack" syndrome...now there are just too many people watching...well, we'll just wait until after the next election that they all just happen to lose...
Did the NSA have anything to do with programming the voting machines???
/nosarc
Money Saving Opportunity Here
Just order black paper and paint a white border on it. It will be a lot cheaper than all the toner required to black out a 6300 page document.
Why the surprise?
They are spies.
They Lie.
Duh.
The saddest part of this is
... that you can just repeat this every 10 years. You won't be writing new material - it will just get older and older and still be the same..
Conversation with IT
PM: " I want Twitter banned, and I want it now".
IT: Who is this guy? Doesn't he know that won't work? Yeah.. Let's just shine him on ... "Yes Sir! We can implement a DNS block for you"
PM: "OK... that's what I need. Do it now"
IT: "sure... here you go"
Internet: Damage Detected. Re-routing.
TO: SysAdmins of all classified materials rooms (CIA/NSA/et. al)
Please immediately remove all the printers.
Thank you
...problem solved.
Hi Guys
... there's a case coming up about how legal our data collection efforts are ... you might want to think about what data we have on you before you think about taking on that case.
Just sayin'
you know who...
Damn pirates
Isn't it obvious by now that every viewing of a free over-the-air broadcast is theft?
Please arrest me
Hey "future crime cops" ... come arrest me... I plan on pirating a cup of coffee while wearing a Guy Fawkes mask and an EFF NSA t-shirt under my tech-dirt hoodie. That should count for at least a 5-yr charge...
Seriously? This better be followed up by "board fires clueless CEO"
You are pissing off the terrorists
Several key terrorist organizations are in an emergency meeting to determine how to accomplish THEIR goal of destroying the governments of the "free world" before the governments do it themselves.
We need to stop this foolishness! Think of the Terrorists!
[ I'd put /sarc but I don't think I'm actually being sarcastic... ]
So to fix all these problems
The best and easiest way is to just disband the GAO.
That will make it all better.
/sarc
For all authorities
.. From this day forth, I will always have an encrypted flash drive in my possession.
The password is "SnowdenRocks"
It contains a copy of the constitution and bill of rights.
I know you have never seen them - so enjoy studying them for all the "radical ideas" they contain.
Competition is NOT in the government's best interest
As government "programs" invest heavily in the stock of these companies - anything which would cut into their profit-making potential can not be tolerated. The massive return on investment enabled by the government granted monopoly given by the left hand enables the other government program on the fight hand to make what it needs to...
gov't->monopoly rents->paid by public->monopoly stock value->gov't
Why would this be allowed to change? No one "important" is getting screwed by this plan...
People will network
Pre-internet saw the rise of the BBS - where people wanted to share files, and did so with NO central oversight. BBS phone numbers were freely copied and shared - many people connected to hundreds of "sites" with simple dial-up modems. A LOT more was done than the industries ever realized. The "internet" centralized it where it became visible and made it a target.
Pre-"It's mine and you can't use it" we had every monthly magazine publishing SOURCE CODE which was freely shared (remember @copyleft?) because people wanted to share and wanted to learn and wanted to share what they enjoyed.
The internet allowed us to do so on a much grander scale - because people want to share what they love and technology allows them to do so easier than ever before. (Try typing in 1000 lines of code out of a magazine with folds in it ... you really learn debugging!)
CULTURE comes from sharing what we love. "The Internet" is just the current mechanism for doing so. Go ahead and take it over. See what happens. Just as has been pointed out - DRM is broken in minutes; phones are jailbroken the day they come out; there is NO technology that can't be circumvented (laws that no one believes in are useless).
People will develop "another way". And, it will be harder to track, harder to find... and the companies will still be standing around wondering what happened and why no one is using their nearly useless service.
Adapt or Die.
The net doesn't care.
People don't care about the success or failure of YOUR business. They care about the things they enjoy. CULTURE is something which MUST BE shared and enjoyed. Locking it up will fail. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
This network may die. But the next one...
Oh yes they are...
many states are working to finish replacing tool booths with "toll by plate" wherein they just snap a pic of your plate as you go by and mail you the bill...so they do know where you are driving and exactly how long it takes you to get from toll booth to toll booth. They could easily do the math and throw in a speeding ticket with the toll bill. ANY set of plate readers could be used this way. I know they aren't tracking cars yet on other roads as I regularly hit 100+ on back roads down here in Florida and I haven't gotten a bill or a visit from those wonderfully friendly guys in blue uniforms...
Can we get a "we the people" petition going
to perform a full-on drug test of all our congress critters? I really wonder what it would turn up. I'm very skeptical that these guys can make these statements "straight". They must be on some really good stuff that they aren't sharing.
Under What Program
Anyone who believes bullet #2 has not been paying attention to the new meaning of words from our government agencies.
Let's see how that really reads...
"We just have a file on everyone IN the united states - citizen or not"
"We just happen to have 350 million files, which just happens to match the number of people in the US".
Or the other game:
First, define "keep". Second, define "file"
"we don't have a FILE on them, just a lot of records about them".
Hey.. I'm getting pretty good at this game... maybe they will call me and offer me a job - after all, they and/or the NSA have my contact information...